The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PRINCE BISMARCK received on his birthday.
recently barrel of beer from nearly every
brewer in Germany
GENERAL SHERIDAN and party of friends
will soon make horseback excursion through
the Shenandoah valley, the scene of his famous
victory.
THE Queen of he'Belgians recently took pot
luck with the officers of a regiment of infantry.
Her dinner was plate of cabbage soup and
picked pigs foot
SOME one comes forward with the theory that
cigarette smoking tends to a softening of the
brain. This is not exactly right. but softening
of the brain tends to cigarette smoking
THE Sultan Of Turkey has had the members of
his harem, one hundred and thirty in number
vaccinated Even the smallpox is not permitted
to enter the sacred precincts of his copjugal do
main.
BURDETTE THAT new dentist VINO came to
town last week is going to make business hum
said the postmaster How sol" said the parson.
why, he has sign out. Teeth extracted while
you wait. He's a rustler.
THE estate of Dunsnane, Scotland is in the
market for SALE 1t belongs to Mr.. w NJ Marine.
whose family has owned il for some hundreds of
years 1t comprises Dunsinane hill, the sup
posed site of Macbeth's castle.
SoMERvILLE Mass. Journal: An optimist is
a woman with new spring suit A pessimist is
a woman without new spring suit. An optimist
with a baby day old. A peSSmlSt
is man with baby 1873 nights young, and teeth
Ing.
w. II. BREARLY, for thirteen years the adver-
Using manager of the Detroit Evening News
severed his connection with that paper last Sat-
urday evening Two of his Office staff, Miss
MolHe Hill and Mr.. Clark, retired at the same
time.
THE communion table from which George
Washington received the sacrament on the Sun
dav before his death has Just been restored to
Christ Church, Alexandria, by Miss Sally Stu
art, who received it from near relative by be-
quest.
A RECENT visitor to the Pope asked Cardinal
Howard whether she would better tell the Pope
at the audience she was to have that she an
Irishwoman. "Oh, yes" said Cardinal Howard.
land if you only say you a homeruler you
will be all the better received"
AMERICAN Hebrew A very little fellow who
has very lively tongue and talks so much at
meals that a recent occasion, when there
were to be guests at the table, his elder brother
bribed h m with a nickel to be still After ten
minutes Of silence the little boy whispered anx-
iousiy to his brother: Arthur, Arthur, mayr't
I talk a cents WORTH
A TRULY regal present was sent by the King
of Portugal to the German Emperor, which is
worth all the other royal birthday gifts put to-
gether. 1t is sword of honor. with a blade
specially made at the Lisbon arsenal and ex-
quistely chseled. The hit is of solid gold. en-
crusted in every part with diamonds, sapphres,
rubies and emeralds. These were set after
design supplied by the Queen.
IT is related that in England a school in
spector who, delighting in comm III sense ques-
TONS propounded this: IF 1 met you coming
down the village street and said Animal!
ANIMAL what would you say2" The right answer
remains a mystery; the real ''Saa!
shud saa yeow fue." Undaunted, the
examiner next asked why the 10 salt. He
got three answers: One Because of the Var
folk sweet" and one from pious little maiden,
Because God made it so"
THERE are some interesting names found in
the list of the Fiftieth Congress. Curious bap-
tismal names abound. Among them Jehu,
Hilary. Adoniram, Knute, Cherubusco. Beriah
and Welty. In surnames the trades are well
represented. There is Baker. Fisher a
Weaver, Cooper. a Mason. Glover. Hunter,
a Miller, Brewer, Granger Turner Tay-
Tor and SAWYER For the first time in years
there is no Robinson in Congress. The colors
represented are White, Gray and Brown There
is only one Hogg among the members.
MRS MARY L. BARR who is making herself
known a writer of Scotch dialect stories
hardly touched pen to paper up to the age of
ffty-four. Sne lost her husband. who was mill
tary Governor of Texas, and seven children IN
the space OF twenty four hours from yellow fe-
YER and found herself left with four little ones
and fifty cents her hands In course of time
she drifted to New York and became governess
Her first tale, which was written at the request
and to crafty the within of her employer. dealt
with lite in the old days in Texas
THE change of feeling in regard to the long
admired characters, Sam Weller and his father,
is curious phase of moral and literary opinion
in England. A bright little book called Weller
inns" has done much in bringing about this new
attitude. The author declares that Sam Weller
was 'at best liar thief, ruffian and an ig-
noramus" His fidelity to his master is ac-
fIa for hat amid. Oh
his place except for worse one. OF honesty
he seems TO have no conception. He had the
gutter point Of honor-to have a humiiiating
repartee for all corners, the pot-house accom-
plishments of skill and readiness as pugilist.
and the outcast instinct to resist officers of
the law and prevaricate in the witness box"
AMONG the treasures which the Hon. Elihu B.
Washburne desires to give to the city of Chicago
are many valuable mementoes of his career at
Paris, such life-sized pictures of Emperor
William and Bismarck, which they, in recogni-
ton of his humane activity, presented TO him
with their own hands, pictures OF Theirs, Gam